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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:EDIT: I get over 100 emails a day and 95% of those are spam.
I thinks it's time you stop signing up for you know what sites Seriously though, you should consider opening a new email address and being careful with whom you give it to. I use multiple email account when I have to sign up for things, like jcart.spam@hotmail.com
yea I just figured out what it's from... there are about 3 or 4 forums that use my email address as my username... so my email is just out there to be picked up off their boards. I must have signed up for them when I first got the email address... the cool thing is gmail picks up 99% of them and I haven't missed an important email yet (had the account for over a year). Spam doesn't really bug me.
Ninja, you don't read them? But how will you know if those "enhancement" pills work or not? I can use my lottery winnings to buy loads of v1agr4 and male enhancement pills! Man, I'm a genius!... why didn't I think of this before??
Of course I open the v1agr4 ones! I want my member to be firm and last hours!!
jcart, I used to to do that too when I was using luke [at] visionofdesign [dot] com - don't put on public display and then I would use amazon at visionofdesign dot com or whatever the site I was using (as the username), but gmail does such a good job of filtering out all the garbage, I just use it now.
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:jcart, I used to to do that too when I was using luke [at] visionofdesign [dot] com - don't put on public display and then I would use amazon at visionofdesign dot com or whatever the site I was using (as the username), but gmail does such a good job of filtering out all the garbage, I just use it now.
Agreed. I'm not bashing filters if thats what you mean, they serve their purpose quite well.
Jcart wrote:Should be noted, I receive zero unwanted emails in my account with the patented Jcart Method Machine. Beat that Mr. FilterLover.
Mr. FilterLover consoles his filters and reminds them that the meanie weenie Jcart likes his Method Machine as much Mr. FilterLover likes his filters (besides, filters do let in some wanted "unwanted" emails ).
matthijs wrote:Come on, do people even open or look at these mails?
Yes the web Mail Users Open Thease mails Cause the subject of thease mails are
"Congratulation You won pound 1,000,000"
tell me If You get A mail which has a subject like this wouldn't you open it ??
absolutely not. i actually had a fedex come to my house with paperwork from the UK telling me I won. Why would I win from the UK when I live in the US First of all. That is a big flag there. Second, there are no such things as lotteries unless you go and buy a ticket or actually recall registering at a particular place and get a receipt.
anyone who pays money, I really hate to say it, but deserves to lose it because of stupidity.
why would you send money to someone to get money. you do that once you claim a prize. you pay taxes after the prize is claimed. think about it. if it is too good to be true, it is!!
Sometimes the emails a pretty crafty. My former boss got an email addressed to him by name, and in it was a reference to someone in Italy that that had the same last name as him that had recently dies. Funny thing is, this guy was Italian by birth, but was adopted while still a baby, so his heritage was not known.
Anyway, the story seemed legit, and did not involve up front money. The emailer did request a face to face meeting in Europe somewhere, but as the emails began to cross paths, the original email stopped communicating.
I should note also that the original email identified himself as an account executive with a large European bank that, after a bit of investigation, was proven to be accurate (the named person actually was an executive at that bank though his identity was never verified). Anyway, it sounded good at the time, then quietly disappeared.
matthijs wrote:Come on, do people even open or look at these mails?
Yeah, about 0.1% of all the people they are sent to. 0.0001% of people believe them. When you're sending out 50,000,000 emails, that's not a bad response rate...
There was a spate of news paper articles where people had been duped of tens of thousands of pounds by the now infamous '419' phishing mail scammers - the ones with "Good day, my half-detached twice removed great uncle multi billionaire orange juice dealer died yesterday and wants to give YOU 1,239,039,039,451 pounds."